D6x6 Memetic Viruses

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Special thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6	This memetic virus originated
1	from an alien broadcast picked up by SETI.
2	from a black budget CIA experiment in psychological control.
3	naturally and chaotically, from billions of minds manipulating trillions of symbols.
4	from a genius artist who became terribly bitter and resentful from feeling critically underappreciated.
5	from a more benevolent attempt by a billionaire-sponsored NGO to globally alter consciousness.
6	from an advanced algorithm given a neuron-level scan of a human brain in its source sample.

D6	This memetic virus has
1	made its way into the possession of a terrorist group, who plan to release it in a major metropolitan area.
2	begun rapidly spreading thanks to mass media reporting on it without understanding its true danger.
3	been quarantined to one continent, though unbeknownst to almost all a few samples made it out as archival records, lying latent until the next outbreak.
4	been weaponized by the military and deployed in a warzone, where it has spread and evolved beyond its master's ability to contain.
5	been spreading as the latest trend on Tiktok, and as of yet most believe it to be nothing more than a strange affectation of the youth.
6	swept the globe, forcing most survivors into crowded fortified enclaves.

D6	This memetic virus spreads
1	through a short video that rapidly shifts through surreal rearrangements of everyday objects, which victims are compelled to send to everyone they know.
2	through a dissonant song that victims are compelled to sing.
3	through a mandala-like image that victims are compelled to draw with whatever materials are at hand.
4	through a herky-jerky dance that victims are compelled to repeat.
5	by hijacking its victims' language facilities, causing them to randomly replace a word they meant to say or write with one that contains the virus, much like the capsid of a biological virus.
6	as both a biological and mental infection, turning the skin of its victims into tattoo-like chromatophores that contaminate those who see them, and are shed as fomites.

D6	In its early stages, this memetic virus
1	induces festive, Carnival-esque feelings in its victims, driving them to congregate, make merry, and disregard laws and social norms.
2	inverts its victims' feelings of comfort toward familiar surroundings, and weakens their sense of direction, pushing them to wander.
3	causes a gradual breakdown in abstract thought, until all that's left is animal urges.
4	encourages black-and-white and totalitarian thinking, tending to lead victims to want to punish any perceived deviance.
5	induces echolalia and echopraxia - in the worst cases causing babbling swarms of victims unable to rest or feed themselves.
6	induces paranoia in its victims towards the uninfected, which just needs a spark to escalate to vicious out-group violence.

D6	In its final stages, this memetic virus
1	transforms victims into sea anemone-like "superspreaders", rooted in place but able to transmit the virus to anyone who looks at or hears them.
2	causes victims to disintegrate into plasma and ride magnetic trails into the sun. When they reach critical mass up there, sunlight itself will become a vector for the virus.
3	causes victims to suffer migraines and bleed from the eyes until their heads explode.
4	is able to puppet its victims bodies even after they've died, leading to a classic zombie apocalypse scenario.
5	causes victims to sublimate from corporeal existence into the noosphere, thereafter being only perceptible in dreams, automatic writing, out of the corner of the eye, and suchlike.
6	manifests as a sapient collective hallucination to its victims, guiding them into ecstasies of sacrifice and self-mutilation.

D6	This memetic virus can be resisted
1	if you've got some sort of sensory impairment or disorder that interferes with its vector.
2	by filling your mind with complex memetic constructs to crowd it out, such as fantasy paracosms or philosophical systems.
3	with psychedelic drugs that create new neural pathways and disrupt information processing.
4	by memory loss or prevention of long-term memory formation that affects recollection of its vector.
5	only temporarily, through an enormous exertion of will.
6	by exposure to a modified, inoculating strain.